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Rimbo

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  1. i can confirm that most cellists are good at both including the women
  2. The only thing interesting about the cello is that I play it. Like, at a work icebreaker, "I'm really good at cello" is a great answer to "tell us something interesting we don't know." But that is literally the only thing interesting about it.
  3. Fenton! FENTON!!! Jesus Christ ... FENTOOOOON!
  4. ohhhhhhhh right those! Somehow got the two conflated
  5. There must be something in the water or the heavens. So many people being colossal dickheads right now.
  6. Mock drafts have ALWAYS been the worst of the worst sports commentary, the last refuge of those desperate to be taken seriously, feeding those who suffer the worst withdrawals from the end of the season. If Mel Kiper were an alcoholic beverage, he'd be Night Train; consumed only by those at or near rock bottom. I wonder if there's some unheralded non-P4 or Div II QB that will go in the late rounds or undrafted that might make a career out of it. Nobody talks about those teams and players.
  7. he was definitely our wr #1 by the end of the season
  8. I don't understand why, in a year where we've had more Combine invites than ever, you would rather talk about Derka instead. The fuck is wrong with you? Put him on ignore.
  9. that's why i use American Express and Discover whenever possible instead
  10. you know those were a major plot arc in Rebels, too?
  11. i like my women like i like my coffee unmodified
  12. "what the fuck are those" -- e e cummings
  13. whine but i like its tooooooooone whine
  14. ouch
  15. Not without tools, nope. Thing is, a lot of these things I'm complaining about are *features* -- being so damn loud, not needing a return for DI recording, being integrated. Just not for my current particular situation. It's not a home practice amp!
  16. It's a Combo. There's no external connection there.
  17. dude, you're the one asking for "sip" tags here reason we aren't aggy is we are perfectly fine with welcoming folks wherever they went to school one of the biggest Longhorn fans I knew growing up himself graduated from Tech you're being a dipshit about this and really need to drop it
  18. He might end up on a good team that way, then.
  19. Hmmm. Seems expensive, but definitely will keep in mind. (Though this piece isn't too bad.) Seems like putting that in the post-preamp effects loop would do exactly the trick. Post gain is part of the preamp circuitry on this model, not part of the power amp. Turning it down all the way doesn't mute the speaker, and reduces the line-out signal. (Also, the compressor is part of the power amp circuitry, so there's no way to record the compressor direct. God fucking dammit.) It's solid state, yes, so you can turn the volume down, but again -- that reduces the DI signal, and signal-to-noise ratio becomes an issue. Also, what I really need is to go completely muted, so that I can plug my headphones in and the only sound coming out is the strings twanging against the bass body when the rest of the family's gone to bed. However, I did try something different, and it seems (so far) to be working. Rather than using the ancient Y-cable, I plugged a patch cable in there, and plugged the other part of the patch cable into the output of an old (and possibly busted) pedal I have. Just to give the input something to be connected to, right? Nothing dangling around, picking up whatever. AND, since the pedal is kinda shitty, I don't feel bad if doing this breaks the pedal. And, so far, it seems to have solved the issues. No random humming or static, in fact it's gone from picking up the signal from the Preamp Out cable to being completely noiseless. Well, either that, or that last POP! broke the power amplifier.
  20. Yeah, there's your problem right there.
  21. Hmm. Maybe one of y'all smart folks could help me out here. Like I said, '82 Peavey Combo. Sounds amazing, still. But WAY too fuckin' loud to play in a small California bungalow with a raised foundation. (Or just about any domestic environment.) So what I've been trying to do is have the Pre Amp Out go directly into my audio interface, and then that Y-cable there is plugged into the Power Amp In. The Y-cable is connected to nothing. So now the only thing the power amp is trying to amplify is whatever static happens to be in the air or around the place. And this works fine... for a while. But after some time, you start hearing static coming out of the speaker now and then... and then a big, massive POP. It's SUPER loud, and defeats the whole purpose of trying to silence the thing. What can I do? Adjust the ground? Do they make 1/4" plugs that are more isolated/insulated that could do a better job? What the Power Amp In is supposed to do is to work with the crossover -- you put a patch cable coming out of the crossover, and then into the port. Maybe I use the crossover low, turn the cutoff frequency all the way down, and then just ... well, expect lots of low subs coming out or something? No idea. Or maybe have both crossover ports going out to nothing. Just need some way to mute the speaker for domestic use/practicing so my wife and cats aren't disturbed from their nap, but I can still get that sweet, sweet preamp tone.
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